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Chicken with Tomatoes & Olives

I have been trying to experiment in the kitchen at little more lately. Do a few things that I wouldn’t normally do. Cook with ingredients that I don’t normally cook with. Use flavor combos that I don’t normally use. Because the truth of the matter is, I was getting a little bored in the kitchen. Especially when it came to chicken. So I decided it was time to shake things up a bit. This Chicken with Tomatoes & Olives was the delicious result.

Let’s talk about getting bored in the kitchen.

It happens. In fact I think that is why a lot of people don’t cook all that often. They always cook the same things so it gets a little ho-hum.

Boredom in the kitchen is exactly why I started this blog in the first place. I found myself always buying the same things at the grocery store week in and week out. I had a few solid good recipes that I would make throughout the week. Other nights we’d eat sandwiches. Or eat out.

Boring.

Once I started the blog, cooking became fun again. But even now, even with trying all of these new recipes all the time, I still find myself getting a little bit bored. I think the reason is that I was using ingredients and flavor combos that I was super comfortable with. I mean, why not? I KNEW the recipe would always turn out.

But again. I got kinda bored.

This dish isn’t totally out there. It doesn’t change the book on chicken. But it does bring out a new flavor profile that I wasn’t that familiar with.

Of course I’ve cooked with chicken before. And tomatoes. And lemon. And olives. What I had never done before, however, is put them all together in one dish.

I was a little unsure how it was going to work out. I was a little unsure that the lemon would be too lemony. That the olives would make it a little too briney but, guys, it totally worked. I could not get enough of the the tomatoes and the chicken. And I found myself hunting for every last olive.

In fact, if I wasn’t so worried about teaching my boys good manners, I may have licked the plate clean. That is how good this Chicken with Tomatoes and Olives is.

I recommend serving it over rice so that you get every last little bit of the saucy goodness.